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| − | == Dual users ==
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| − | As a dual user (and now a dual administrator) of Conservapedia and CreationWiki, I have some questions that I think every registered user of multiple Wikis should ask himself--and here is the best place to put the answers.
| + | WeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooeeeeaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA |
| − | | + | My loony bun is fine Benny Lava! |
| − | What obligations does a dual user labor under?
| + | Minor bun engine made Benny Lava! |
| − | | + | Anybody need this sign? Benny Lava! |
| − | May a dual user submit content--and by "content" I mean ''that user's own words''--directly to Conservapedia and to another Wiki?
| + | You need a bun to bite Benny Lava! |
| − | | + | Have you been high today? |
| − | If a dual user has already submitted content to another Wiki--say, CreationWiki--then how long does he have to submit that content to Conservapedia before having to do an extensive rewrite?
| + | I see the nuns are gay! |
| − | | + | My brother yelled to me... |
| − | How extensive a rewrite would be required to avoid all questions of liability?
| + | I love you inside Ed! |
| − | | + | My loony bun is fine Benny Lava! |
| − | In asking these questions, I realize at once that some content requires an extensive rewrite because the "target audience" is not the same, and has different values and, for lack of a better term, needs. But if that situation does not apply, then a dual user might be tempted to submit exactly the same words to both projects. If a user is going to do that, then how many days apart may he do that and still stay within a legal definition of "a simultaneous submission"?
| + | Minor bun engine made Benny Lava! |
| − | | + | I told a high school girl... |
| − | I am glad to have the opportunity to open a discussion on a topic of vital importance to Conservapedia. A firm policy on dual-user rights and obligations will go far to ensure that Conservapedia can get good content submitted to it.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 12:15, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | I love you inside me! |
| − | | + | I'd love to see you pee on us tonight! |
| − | : Other Wikis embrace, mistakenly in my opinion, the [[copyleft]] approach. We do not. As a dual user, I suggest submitting to Conservapedia first because our copyright is less restrictive than other Wikis. If you submit to other Wikis first, then they might insist that impose the burdensome [[copyleft]] conditions on reuse of that material elsewhere. We impose no such requirements.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 13:46, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | I'd love to see you pee on us tonight! |
| − | | + | OOOOOOOooooOOOOOoooo |
| − | * Just on the broader point of comparing it to Wikipedia's license... [[Differences with Wikipedia]] and [[Wikipedia copyright]] both currently say that contributing material to Wikipedia prevents the author from re-using their work elsewhere. This is manifestly untrue. By U.S. law, authors automatically own the copyright to their work, and the GFDL has no clauses that reassign copyright ownership to anyone else. If I write a poem all by myself, license it under the GFDL, and post it to Geocities, then I still own the copyright. The same holds for Wikipedia. Wikipedia authors can and do [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multi-licensing multiply-license] their works under other licenses in addition to the GFDL, which can include licenses that are more restrictive than the GFDL. --[[User:Interiot|Interiot]] 13:57, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | OOOOOOOooooOOOOOoooo |
| − | | + | You feel me up with doom. |
| − | : That's '''not''' correct to the extent your work has been edited on other Wikis. I don't know if you are right about your unedited original work and what Wikipedia or other Wikis may require as a condition of submission there. The provisions governing submission on those websites would need to be checked.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 14:09, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | Quit looking up at me! |
| − | ::I should think that any contributor who built his contribution on his own machine, or otherwise re-created his original submission ''prior to any edits'', would satisfy the original-submission requirement. Happily, any Wiki has a history section that preserves the source code of every version of every article since its creation, or perhaps fifty edits back. All that a user has to do is look back to how his article looked ''before anyone else edited it'' (not counting immediate reverts) and then view and copy the source. I maintain that a contributor who does that, should be able to dual-submit. But I agree--once the article has been edited by another person, it's not that submitter's original work product anymore.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 14:16, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | You got a minute girl? |
| − | | + | The puppy had a fee! |
| − | | + | Don't think I do love her |
| − | : As I (not a legal type - this comes from my experience as an artist and a writer in dealing with copyrights) understand it there are two issues here - original work and deritive work. In the case of original work, unless you assign the copyright or "irrevocably waive and relinquish all copyrights"[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Conservapedia:Copyright&oldid=89370#II] you own the copyright. You are free to license it however you want. You can put it on a gdfl wiki and you can publish it in a book, and that is not an issue (some publishers may want exclusive publishing rights in which case having published the material at a wiki means they won't be interested in it). The only thing you have to be aware of is that someone else can come along and use the material in a way granted by the gdfl and they are not violating your copyright. If the material is a deritive work - it is edits based on other edits of someone else's work, while you own the copyright to the ''edit'', you have to abide by the licensing of the parent work - if it is gdfl, then that means if you want to publish the material you have edited, then it is also under the gdfl. --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 14:17, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | We're looking in a pill! |
| − | | + | We're looking in a pill! |
| − | : I think both Terry and Mtur are right. Thanks also to Interiot for alerting us to this aspect of the issue.
| + | All of them like the bun! |
| − | | + | Now poop on them Oliver! |
| − | : By the way, those you who have influence with other wikis might persuade them to abandon their burdensome "copyleft" or gdfl licensing requirements.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 14:30, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | OOOO DADDY! |
| − | | + | JUST SAY IT! |
| − | :: Could you remove that disconcerting "irrevocably waive and relinquish all copyrights" bit here? As an artist that kind of scares me. --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 14:32, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | You know the hole to put it! |
| − | | + | Just sing it! |
| − | ::: I've clarified it for you, but I don't see how to change what's in quotations without allowing people to cause problems in protesting copying of their entries. Do you have a suggestion consistent with the purpose of a wiki?--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 14:38, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | You love me! |
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| − | == From Wikipedia on multi licensing ==
| + | You send me... Offended... You know the hole to put it! |
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| − | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multi-licensing Wikipedia:Multi-licensing]
| + | You love me! |
| − | <blockquote>All text edits to Wikipedia fall under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) with the copyright being retained by the original author.</blockquote>
| + | Your pundit got armor! |
| − | This edit[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Differences_with_Wikipedia&curid=11868&diff=89683&oldid=89350] is not correct in that manner.
| + | ho put the goat in there? |
| − | <blockquote> 1. We allow broader reuse of our material than Wikipedia does. By entering information on Wikipedia you are actually losing rights to your own material to the extent anyone else edits it, as you cannot then copy your entry for use elsewhere without complying with Wikipedia's burdensome copyright restrictions.</blockquote>
| + | The yellow goat I ate! |
| − | You still own the original material even after it has been edited. (ps: could you make that a wiki style numbering instead? It should make your life easier if you ever want to insert a point between it or if you use a local style sheet to change how ordered lists are presented) --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 14:39, 6 April 2007 (EDT) | + | My loony bun is fine Benny Lava! |
| − | : OK, you're right. I made it this: "you irrevocably consent to the display, copying, reuse or editing of your information, edits and entries, with or without attribution." And I'll fix the numbering also. Thanks.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 14:42, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | Minor bun engine made Benny Lava! |
| − | :: That is ''much'' better. Thank you. --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 14:44, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
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| − | == Can Wikipedia (or any Wiki) Stop Copying of Entries? ==
| + | (I like to swim in his) |
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| − | One editor here has suggested that Wikipedia (and other Wikis) never own any rights in any of their entries, and that Wikipedia (and other Wikis) cannot stop any copying of their entries even if in violation of the GNU license. Wikipedians, do you have a view on this? (We don't want to copy any Wikipedia here but this is relevant to our own copyright policies).--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:51, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
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| − | :Well, though I'm technically still a registered user of [[Wikipedia]], I must disclaim anything more than a passing acquaintance with Wikipedia's copyright policies.
| + | (I like to swim in it) |
| − | :But I ''am'' an administrator at [[CreationWiki]], and I am in at least weekly contact with their Chief Bureaucrat, Christopher W. Ashcraft. He says that he won't accept any verbatim copies from Conservapedia to his site, and he has advised all of us on his end not to copy stuff that we did not write over here. (As to things we ''did'' write--well, he doesn't mind dual submissions, and he said that ''simultaneous'' submissions are perfectly permissible as a matter of law. But I think he would agree with you, Andy, that we must submit our own words ''before'' anyone else edited them.)
| + | (I like to swim in his) |
| − | :Frankly, that's about all that matters. I'll tell you how I use Wikipedia: I go to their sources whenever possible, and where that's not possible, I rewrite. In fact, most of the time, I ''couldn't'' accept their content, because they have a POV that I don't share. And even as regards my dual submisions here and at CreationWiki, I can't always write exactly the same thing here and there. This project and CreationWiki have two different target populations and two different scopes.
| + | (beeeeejaaaaayyy!) |
| − | :Now as to whether anyone can stop the copying: I suspect that they could. I'll give you an insight from another context: firmware for a wireless router. When the company that currently owns the Linksys name incorporated code from the [[Linux]] operating system in the firmware for their WRT-54G family of wireless combination access point/routers, the Free Software Foundation sent them a cease-and-desist order. Linksys concluded that they just couldn't keep that code proprietary anymore, so they released the code. The result has been the invention of a number of "alternative firmwares" for that device. But it has ''also'' set a precedent that "copyleft" provisions ''are'' enforceable.
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| − | :And even if they couldn't go to court--well, I'd certainly hate to see any of our dual users get blocked for unlawful copying. That kind of misunderatanding would truly be a crying shame.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 20:33, 6 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | A nerd to punk a nerd. |
| − | The original contributors are the copyright owners (Wikipedia contributions aren't a [http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter0/0-c.html "work for hire"], and there's no other agreement to transfer copyright ownership), and the copyright owners [https://message.computerlaw.com/GH_ShowArticle.asp?HID=35 are the only ones who have standing] to sue for infringement. Outside of court of course, standing isn't strictly adhered to, anybody can negotiate on behalf of the copyright owners, particularly if they believe they'll be able to find and assist the people who have standing by the time a lawsuit could occur.
| + | I'm bleeding F*cking A! |
| − | | + | That stuff is pink colored! |
| − | That's just copyright law though, I guess non-copyleft licenses may behave [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851 more like contracts], I don't know. --[[User:Interiot|Interiot]] 12:32, 9 July 2008 (EDT)
| + | Some day I sell DNA! |
| − | | + | This boar ain't very cool. |
| − | ==Photographs==
| + | You need a Hindi yew! |
| − | | + | Got into Seattle. |
| − | To place a photo on wikipedia, you have to have specific proof that you have the copyright holder's permission to post it. Here, you can post any photograph. That's a violation of copyright law. [[User:Czolgolz|Czolgolz]] 01:39, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | I'll lay a friend of yours! |
| − | :Are you sure? The Sysops monitor all photograph submissions, and insist that everyone provide that proof in a free-text field. We also warn people that photograph submissions not in accord with our guidelines are subject to deletion. [[Wikipedia]] offers a menu of copyright-rationale choices. Perhaps Conservapedia would be well-advised to construct something similar, if only to make things easier on uploaders. But "anyone can post" is not a violation ''per se''. ''Retaining'' a photograph in our image archive that we shouldn't have--now ''that'' might be a violation.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 08:36, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | I fought a barber man! |
| − | | + | We know what's in butter rum! |
| − | == time to grow up? ==
| + | A jet pack... operation... |
| − | | + | Send him the crazy Hindu! |
| − | Is Conservapedia mature enough yet to remove "To compare this with Wikipedia's more restrictive copyright policy, see [[Wikipedia copyright]]." from this page? We don't compare it to the copyright policy of the US government, or of paper encyclopaedia publishers, so comparing to Wikipedia here is not really helpful either.
| + | Whatever! My Sadist! |
| − | | + | All baked and cooked alive! |
| − | I see this page is not presently protected, but it probably should be, as I believe only the site owner should change its copyright notice. --[[User:Scott|Scott]] 21:46, 13 April 2007 (EDT) | + | I lick you... Belinda... |
| − | | + | The ninja made a movement. |
| − | : Thanks, I protected it at your suggestion.
| + | Tell Donna... No collar... |
| − | | + | I'll do what body loves! |
| − | : As to your substantive comment above, Wikipedia's copyright requirements are burdensome. Conservapedia's copyright allows much broader and easier reuse. This is factual, well-supported, and no one seems to dispute it. Users should be aware of this.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 14:01, 14 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | I put papaya there. |
| − | | + | You love me inside there! |
| − | ::Thanks. If Conservapedia is supposed to be an ''alternative'' to Wikipedia, it shouldn't need to compare itself on every page. Someone wanting to know under what conditions they are contributing here, or whether they can reuse something found here, doesn't need or want to read the comparison any more than at the end of point 1 (revocable) "This is different to material published by the US Government which is released to the public domain and can be used for any purpose without restriction." or "Encyclopaedia Brittannica does not allow reuse of their published material." --[[User:Scott|Scott]] 19:34, 14 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | My loony bun is fine Benny Lava! |
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| − | ==Self-defense?==
| + | Anybody need this sign? Benny Lava! |
| − | This licence is simpler that the GFDL only at the expense of the vagueness inherent in the sentence "This license is revocable only in very rare instances of self-defense, such as protecting continued use by Conservapedia editors or other licensees." Much of the GFDL licence document is concerned with enumerating the precise conditions you must meet in order to be ''sure'' that that your right to use the material will not be revoked. By maintaining the right to revoke the licence under the poorly-defined grounds of "self-defense" users can't be sure that they actually have the right to use the material; Nor can they be sure that a use that is permitted at one time might be disallowed at a future time. In this sense the Conservapedia license is less free than the GFDL. I suggest that this clause is replaced with a BSD-style "no endorsement" clause.--[[User:Jalapeno|Jalapeno]] 04:12, 15 May 2007 (EDT)
| + | You need a bun to bite Benny Lava! |
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| − | :This encyclopedia is well appreciated, a needed response to Wikipedia's fatal flaws. I am for it. Nonetheless, Jalapeno is right. It is not really relevant that the GNU project is a left-wing, anti-American organization, or that the BSD license comes from the liberal fever swamps of Berkeley. The informal term "copyleft" may be etymologically annoying, but the idea the term represents is entirely sound. You just cannot have an open-source encyclopedia without a proper open-source license.
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| − | ::The Free Software Foundation (GNU project) has a left-wing anarchist bias, and I also reject that term "copyleft" because it implies that everyone who supports open source, even voluntarily or in a financial/promotional setting, is a communist liberal. Many right-wing people, especially the anti-Ayn-Rand libertarians such as Lew Rockwell and Stephan Kinsella, support open-source because it is opposed to restrictive government laws and government-empowered lawyers getting in your way of free markets and a free press, and/or does not follow Locke's definition of property (it does follow Rand's), and/or is/might be financially profitable in certain situations. The man who first commercialized (and coined the term) open-source, Eric S. Raymond of the Open Source Development Initiative, was a libertarian for many years and is currently a neocon. Linus Torvalds is similar, he came from a Finnish communist family but became a wealthy conservative due to his work on the Linux kernel. Other musicians with past fan bases (such as NIN) have turned to Internet marketing and have dumped their record labels, making some stuff open-source/CC and/or charging for another/a better product. So we should not claim that open-source and free-software are "liberal" but are voluntary contracts any political person can agree to. (Private contract is limited government conservatism, isn't it?) However, see my note below about public domain under the "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0" section regarding possible risks with Conservapedia doing waiver such as these. -[[User:Danq|danq]] 13:36, 6 February 2011 (EST)
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| − | :There is a fundamental difference between an encyclopedia that allows free use of its material and one that restricts free use for the purpose of "stopping unauthorized copying or mirroring of entire parts of this site," as Conservapedia evidently does. If Conservapedia includes some old material that obstructs proper open-sourcedness, and if open-sourcedness (is that a word?) is a goal, then why not remove or sequester the old material? --[[User:Tannoce|Tannoce]] 08:43, 21 August 2008 (EDT)
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| − | :: The [[GFDL]] copyright is the one that needs improvement to ease reuse. Our copyright has worked well and is much more free and easy-to-use, except when the use is obviously destructive as outlined.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 09:46, 21 August 2008 (EDT)
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| − | As I read the above, GNU allows me to use my ''exact'' contribution elsewhere (but proving it was my contribution may be problemantic) but once others have ''collaborated'' on the article it may be "illegal" for me to cut and paste all or any edited portions of the article to Conservapedia, since it would now include other editor's contributions. Correct?
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| − | Therefore, if one wants to work with collaborators in developing a solid article on controversial issues subject to POV pushing at Wikipedia, one should start here at Conservapedia...collaborate...then copy the entire article over to Wikipedia, since there would be no restrictions on moving an entire article to Wikipedia or WikiInfo or any other GNU governed site. Is that correct?
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| − | Mostly, I'm looking for a safer ground to collaborate with editors who won't constantly disrupt the article by deleting facts that undermine their political position. Am I correct in my understanding that Conservapedia provides better safegaurds? For example, can a person who starts an article for collaboration unilaterally block a disruptive editor? Can one or more "approved" collaborators "guard" the article from someone who is disruptively trying to slant it in a different direction?
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| − | If all that I've described above is correct, I STRONGLY recommend that Conservapedia should have an article prominently linked here that encourages developing articles here with the intent of copying them over to Wikipedia (which surely has more traffic) once they are developed. Participating Editors then should, of course, watchlist the article on their Wikipedia accounts to help protect it from "blanking" of "inconvenient" facts.--[[User:MarthaVine|MarthaVine]] 11:24, 17 April 2008 (EDT)
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| − | : What you say is correct, but [[Wikipedia]] is a lost cause and I don't have any interest in trying to post good material there. [[Wikipedia]] does have lots of traffic but much of it is for non-educational (and sometimes biased) entries. If something good is posted to [[Wikipedia]], then I don't expect it to last there.
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| − | : However, feel welcome to copy your contributions to Wikipedia over to here, where we do not impose the silly copyright restrictions imposed by Wikipedia.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:30, 17 April 2008 (EDT)
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| − | ::At Wikipedia, it is possible for a group of contributors (whom you call "editors") to monopolize all collaboration on an article, even though this is expressly against Wikipedia policy. The abuse happens so frequently that Wikipedia '''itself''' calls it "tag-team editing".
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| − | ::*''Tag teams can block other Wikipedians from making contributions'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_articles#Multiple_editors]
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| − | ::Here, collaboration can take place among those who are sympathetic with the project's goals. Trustworthy articles are the primary goal, so if any liberals want to submit reliable information they are welcome. Unfortunately, about 90% of new users arrive here determined to subvert the project. Perhaps you would like to help reverse this trend.
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| − | ::What you propose, however, in terms of a team preparing an article offsite for migration to Wikipedia, is best down on a wiki which uses a free license. I would be happy to work with you at www.churchwiki.net if you are on the level. Forgive my caution, but I'd like to make sure before I invest any time in this. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 11:41, 17 April 2008 (EDT)
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| − | Am I wrong to be sure that copying or migrating our articles to Wikipedia would be useless, because "THEY" would destroy it there anyway? {{unsigned|Jerryankeedoodle}}
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| − | In item 3, I recommend changing "the United States District Court sitting in the City of Newark, State of New Jersey" to "A COURT OF LAW IN TRENTON, NEW JERSEY". I would have made the change myself, but the page is protected.--[[User:MackHein|MackHein]] 11:39, 9 March 2009 (EDT)
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| − | A more "free market" solution would be to eliminate all mention of U.S. Government courts altogether, and provide for the settlement of copyright-related disputes through some sort of [[alternative dispute resolution]] (ADR) - perhaps [[mediation]] as a first step and then [[arbitration]]. If any litigation did occur, it would reduce the cost and time required to resolve it. A typical ADR boilerplate clause reads thus:
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| − | {{cquote|'''Arbitration of all Disputes.''' As a material part of this Agreement, the parties agree that any and all disputes, claims or controversies arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the purchase of the Property, shall be determined by confidential, final and binding arbitration in Newark, New Jersey, in accordance with the then-existing rules for commercial arbitration of the American Arbitration Association. Disputes, claims, and controversies subject to final and binding arbitration under this Agreement include, without limitation, all those that otherwise could be tried in a court to a judge or jury in the absence of this Agreement. By agreeing to submit all disputes, claims and controversies to binding arbitration, each of the parties expressly waives its rights to have such matters heard or tried in a court before a judge or jury or in any other tribunal. Any award shall be final, binding and conclusive upon the parties, subject only to judicial review provided by statute, and a judgment rendered on the arbitration award may be entered in any state or federal court having jurisdiction thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each party agrees that before undertaking the aforementioned arbitration, they shall submit all disputes, claims or controversies to a mutually agreeable mediator in an attempt to a informally resolve said disputes, claims or controversies without the need for arbitration.}} [[User:NathanLarson|NathanLarson]] 12:39, 1 March 2010 (EST)
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| − | :It would only be "free market" if we decided to put it in the contract. I for one have closed many Web site accounts for fear of someone bringing a charge against me where I have no means of self-defense and would be stuck paying not only the Web site owner thousands of dollars, but everyone's "legal fees" to the arbitration forum. Plus, if I am correct it costs companies money to join/fund these forums. I suggest we put as many waivers in as we need, such as waiving the right to a jury trial to discourage long cases and class-action suits. But to involve ourselves in something like this where we not only risk lacking the ability to pay and/or putting the financial safety of one editor/administrator/visitor against another, people's lives can be destroyed over a single debate about something. Conservapedia is not a multinational corporation, and we get picked on/spammed by liberals and atheists, both celebrity and troll, quite a bit. -[[User:Danq|danq]] 11:12, 6 February 2011 (EST)
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| − | The [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license] is a pretty good one. It's not a [[copyleft]] license like the [[GFDL]] or [[Creative Commons Share-Alike]] licenses, so cumbersome contractual entanglements pertaining to derivative works are avoided. Functionally, it's not all that different from a [[public domain]] license (see [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ this page]), except that it's perhaps on firmer legal footing. (There is still some question as to whether a copyright owner is allowed to release his work into the public domain.) I don't think it would be such a bad idea to migrate this site to Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. [[User:NathanLarson|NathanLarson]] 15:33, 1 March 2010 (EST)
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| − | :NathanLarson et al, I thought you should know that Creative Commons at some point introduced something called CC0. It is a list of waivers, not a license, and it waives not only the copyright but all of the "all rights reserved" which come with copyright (this doesn't include patents or trademarks). If any part of waiver is not legally possible, the unwaivable rights are re-waived in a "public license fallback", and if that doesn't work, you agree to not to pursue any legal action against others regarding the work. I have applied this to my journal/poetry/opinion blog, but in terms of something like Conservapedia, every editor and administrator would have to know that there is no "taking back" of anything other than deleting it from Conservapedia.com, discouraging automatic spidering using ROBOTS.TXT, and asking/requesting/begging people. Also, there is no attribution requirement, so people can claim not only full credit for our work but partial credit as well (they cannot claim anyone here endorses it). For example, those liberal and atheist spammers can take whatever content they want, pervert it into something else, and claim it it was based on real Conservapedia content, so long as they don't say it's approved/endorsed by any of us. Links: [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ CC0 FAQ] [[http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 main link] [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode CC0 legal code]. Personally I think it would be too much of a hassle to put out press releases on what is and isn't genuine all the time, especially with people like Jon Stewart making fun of us on national TV. I just thought I'd share info on the new CC0 system with NathanLarson and anyone else who happens to read this, and why I feel Conservapedia shouldn't do it. -[[User:Danq|danq]] 10:59, 6 February 2011 (EST)
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| − | :Thanks, Nathan. The owner of this site is a licensed Attorney and not merely a wiki-lawyer, however. --<big>[[User:TK|'''ṬK''']]</big><sub>/Admin</sub><sup>[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</sup> 19:46, 1 March 2010 (EST)
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